Downtown South

420 South Roxboro St., 1965 What is now South Roxboro Street was initially Pine Street - one of a number of north-south streets south of the North Carolina Railroad line that did not connect to streets north of the tracks. The non-connecting and non-aligned Roxboro and Pine Streets, 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital...

What is now South Roxboro Street was initially Pine Street - one of a number of north-south streets south of the North Carolina Railroad line that did not connect to streets north of the tracks. The non-connecting and non-aligned Roxboro and Pine Streets, 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The residential...

What is now South Roxboro Street was initially Pine Street - one of a number of north-south streets south of the North Carolina Railroad line that did not connect to streets north of the tracks. The non-connecting and non-aligned Roxboro and Pine Streets, 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The residential...

328 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...

326 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...

324 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...

320 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...

The early houses along McMannen St. were occupied by names that would become familiar in Durham: Cheek, Wilkerson, Mangum, Angier among them. As mentioned yesterday, many of these houses were supplanted by larger, more ornate structures in the 1890s-1900s.

The early houses along McMannen St. were occupied by names that would become familiar in Durham: Cheek, Wilkerson, Mangum, Angier among them. As mentioned yesterday, many of these houses were supplanted by larger, more ornate structures in the 1890s-1900s.

The early houses along McMannen St. were occupied by names that would become familiar in Durham: Cheek, Wilkerson, Mangum, Angier among them. As mentioned yesterday, many of these houses were supplanted by larger, more ornate structures in the 1890s-1900s.